In the October issue of ArtReview, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst explore the increasingly discounted possibility that artificial intelligence could remain a junior partner in an essentially humanist project, setting loose what they refer to as humanity’s newest ‘coordinating system’ in one of its oldest: the choir. Gelare Khoshgozaran considers what it is about fellow Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory’s moving image works, spliced from snippets of existing postrevolutionary films, that makes them so paralysing. Two ArtReview editors abridge and annotate a ‘classic’ text: E.H. Gombrich’s ‘Norm and Form’. While another editor looks at Mike Kelley’s touring retrospective and sees attempts at making the late American into an artist for all seasons. Plus an interview with Josh Kline, the story of the newly reopened Warburg Institute in London, a column about a documentary photo project that recreates episodes from the Mau Mau rebellion, international exhibition and book reviews.
